Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Richard Prosser wrote:
>   
>> and the first thing to apparently cause a problem
>>     
>
> Exactly.  You don't know how many other problems were there that your test
> didn't happen to uncover.  Did you test all possible instructions with all
> possible data values?  Did you try all possible sequences of data and
> address bus patterns?  Did all possible data paths get tested at all worst
> cases?
>
> And even if you were somehow able to test your one PIC exhaustively, you
> still can't assume that those results apply to the next PIC.
>
>
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Does microchip do all that for every pic?
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